Mastodon Pay Loving Tribute to Late Guitarist Brent Hinds in Emotional 35-Minute Video: ‘He Was a Wild Man, Our Wild Man’
Categoria: Musica
The Mastodon in the Room finds the group talking about their love, and frustrations, with the rocker who died at 51 last year in a motorcycle accident.
Por Billboard | 09/07/2026
Mastodon are opening up for the first time about the band’s difficult decision to break ties with co-founder guitarist Brent Hinds last March, just months before the rocker died in a fatal motorcycle accident in Atlanta in August at age 51. In an emotional 35-minute YouTube video entitled “The Mastodon in the Room,” singer/bassist Troy Sanders, guitarist Bill Kelliher and drummer Brann Dailor talk about the volatile nature of their relationships with Hinds, who they describe as a loving, but often volatile man who struggled with mental health and addiction issues. “It isn’t easy to talk about Brent, he was our family, someone we all loved wholeheartedly. He was a wild man, our wild man, and that came with some challenges,” they wrote in the video description. “Both things are true and we aren’t interested in chasing one truth over the other. Losing him has meant sitting with a type of grief we never expected. No more hugs, no more high fives, no more disagreements, no more making up. That part has been hard, it’s real.” The video opens with Dailor announcing Hinds’ death to a crowd at a show in Alaska last year, then cuts to him explaining, “I was confronted with it … it had just happened and I felt like I just wanted to talk to somebody about it. “We loved him so so so very much,” he says in the video from the show, in which Dailor shared that things were sometimes rocky and they had “ups and downs” in their 25-year relationship with the hard rock band’s co-founder, saying “it’s not always perfect. It’s not always amazing, but we were brothers to the end.” In the new interview, he admits that he was not ready to address it at that show last year, at which point he didn’t even have all the details about how Hinds died. The film then moves on to the remaining trio smiling while screening a montage of playful video featuring Hinds in an Atlanta movie theater as they unpack their complicated, often contentious, relationship with their late friend and band mate. “There was a certain level that Brent would get to where I just had to excuse myself, you know what I mean?” Dailor says of Hinds’ fearlessness and debauchery. “And he wanted you to come, you know? He wanted you to come into the abyss.” After any “incident,” Dailor says they knew the next show would be a good one. “It’s almost like what you hear with a battered housewife,” he explains. “The remorseful boyfriend or husband comes back with flowers. … He bought us diamond rings.” And though the joy of having a great show would help them forget about the difficulties of Hinds’ erratic behavior, as the band watch archival footage of Hinds smiling and joking in the studio while shredding, Kelliher says it makes him forget that at one point Hinds “was that guy at one time … so into playing guitar in Mastodon.&#